Product Features
- Fully programmable 50MHz Arm® Cortex® -M0
- Programmable Over Current Protection for Motor Drive Stage
- Integrated 600V DC/DC Flyback controller
- Integrated 600V Gate Drivers (250mA/500mA)
- Integrated 23V/40mA Open-drain Drivers
- Integrated PGA (3 Differential, 4 Single-ended)
- Integrated DACs and Comparators
- UART, I2C and SPI serial interfaces
- Minimal External Component
- Extremely low total hibernate mode
- Minimal external components
- 10x10mm, 57-pin QFN
The PAC5250 belongs to Active-Semi’s Power Application Controller® (PAC®) family. The PAC® family of products are highly-optimized SOC devices that can implement BLDC or PMSM programmable motor controller and driver in a single integrated IC. The PAC5250 integrates a FLASH-based MCU, Power Management, High-side and low-side Gate Drivers and Signal-Conditioning components in a single product. The PAC5250 is optimized for AC-Powered BLDC or PMSM motor control applications such as AC-powered fans, white goods or compressors. The PAC5250 contains a 50MHz Arm® Cortex®-M0 with 32kB of FLASH that can be used to implement high-performance motor control and supervisory applications. The MCU also contains motor control peripherals such as 10b 1MSPS dual auto-sequencer ADC, PWM timers with hardware dead-time insertion, etc. The Multi-Mode Power Manager™ (MMPM) contains a Flyback DC/DC controller and power management components for powering the IC and other PCB system power supplies. The Application-Specific Power Drivers™ provide integrated gate drivers for use with an external inverter. The Configurable Analog Front-End™ (CAFE) provides signal-chain components such as differential and single-end amplifiers, comparators and DACs.
Advantages of our Intelligent Motor Control
FEATURES | BENEFITS |
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Programmable 32-bit MCU | Allows implementation of high-performance advanced control algorithms such as Field Oriented Control (FOC), Sensorless BEMF, Sensored BLDC and serial communications protocols. |
Integrated Power Manager | Removes the need for an external DC/DC Controller. Provides 5V/200mA system supply for additional PCB peripherals. Integrates all power rails for MCU, FLASH, Analog and gate drivers |
Integrated Gate Drivers | 3 600V integrated high-side and 6 integrated low-side gate drivers for 3-phase inverters |
Integrated Signal Chain | Allows integrated current, voltage and temperature sensing and protection using integrated Differential and Single-ended Programmable-Gain Amplifiers, comparators and DACs |
Lowest standby power | Allows 18µA Iq for standby-mode |
Application Notes
- PAC52XX PCB Layout Guidelines
- PAC52XX Configuring the CAFE for Different Control Topologies
- PAC52XX Multi Mode Power Manager
- PAC52XX FLASH Memory Controller Configuration
- PAC52XX Temperature Sensing and Protection
- PAC52XX Using Watchdog SysTick and GP Timers
- PAC52XX Clock Control Firmware Design
- PAC52XX GPIO Peripheral Firmware Design
- Converting Firmware to Code and IAR
- PAC52XX Writing Configuration Parameters to Flash
Certifications
EP5250HPHVM1-2
Active-Semi’s EP5250HPHVM1-2 Evaluation Kit (EVK) is a complete hardware solution enabling users to evaluate and develop motor control applications around this powerful and versatile ARM®Cortex®-M0 based micro-controller. The module contains the PAC5250 Power Application Controller (MCU), IGBT inverter and debugging headers for serial interfaces and GPIO signals that may be used for debugging and evaluation.
EP5250HPHVM1-2 User Guide
EP5250HVM1-2 Schematics, Layout, BOM, Gerber Files
Supporting Evaluation Tools
The ET-UARTSWD adapter is the preferred adapter for evaluation of PAC® devices/firmware and combines a USB to UART adapter with SWD debugger connector adaptation into a single board with isolation. The ET-UARTISO-1 adapter provides only the USB to UART adapter with isolation for Active-Semi application GUI communications.
ET-UARTSWD
ET-UARTISO-1
PAC5xxx Flash Programmer Tools
Active-Semi has partnered with Flash Programmer solution providers to support our Intelligent Motor Control PAC® product families.
These proven tools are suitable for emerging and high volume product manufacturing.
Both package level (socketed) and board level Flash programming solutions are available.
Active-Semi will support other vendors familiar with Arm® Serial Wire Debug (SWD) protocol to add PAC® product compatibility on their existing Flash programmer platforms.
For more details contact sales@active-semi.com
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Installer for the PAC52XX BLDC application firmware, which implements sensored BLDC and sensorless BEMF motor control on all members of the PAC52XX family. The installer contains example application source code, Windows graphical user interface (GUI), and documentation to allow the user to configure the system to work with their target motor. Project files for IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for ARM (EWARM) and Keil uVision are included.
Installer for the PAC®FOC application firmware designed to show case motor control using sensorless Field Oriented Control (FOC) on all PAC® devices. The installer contains example FOC application source code, Windows graphical user interface (GUI), and documentation to allow the user to configure the system to work with their target motor. Project files for IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm® (EWARM), Keil uVision and Eclipse are included. The FOC application provides a configurable set of features to meet many different application requirements such as sensorless position/speed estimator, start-in-motion (SIM), three or single shunt operation, open phase detection (OPD), field weakening and others.
Installer for the PAC52XX Software Development Kit (SDK) that provides register level definitions and peripheral driver APIs for developing ARM M0 application firmware on all PAC52XX devices. The PAC52XX SDK is a unified SDK that supports Keil µVision IDE, IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for ARM (EWARM) IDE, and GCC tool chains.
PAC52xx IDE Support
Development of application firmware for PAC52XX Arm® Cortex® M0 is made easy with standard integrated development environments (IDEs). Several of the most popular IDEs contain support for PAC52XX devices including Keil uVision, and IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm®. Eclipse development is possible using J-Link by downloading and installing the “Eclipse with PAC® support” package.
DOWNLOAD FILE | DESCRIPTION |
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PAC52XX Keil IDE Guide | Guide for installing Keil uVision for development of PAC52XX application firmware. |
PAC52XX Keil IDE Upgrade v1.0.9 pack to v2.0.0 pack | Guide for upgrading the Keil uVision PAC52XX pack from v1.0.9 to v2.0.0. |
PAC52xx IAR Support
Version: 2018-12-03
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PAC52xx IAR Systems Embedded Workbench IDE installation guide and patches. |
Eclipse with PAC ® support | Installer for Eclipse and supporting plugins for development on the PAC ® family of devices. |